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On Dec. 30, 1903, just five weeks after opening, a fire ripped through the opulent Iroquois Theater in Chicago. Close to 600 people perished. An audience of more than 2,000 had packed into the 1,700-seat theatre for a matinée performance of the musical Mr. Blue Beard when sparks from a stage light ignited a muslin […]

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He was such a modern young guy, Nathan Frank Cirillo, yet he died performing a task that is both so eternal and so soldierly, standing guard over one of his own. Cpl. Cirillo, just 24, was the soldier...

Ottawa shootings

How easy it is. How easy it was. How terribly, ineluctably easy. Since Sept. 11, 2001, authorities across the West have been bracing themselves for the second act, the big kill, the spectacular slaughter...

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Future historians may wonder how we stayed calm in the face of 2017’s global economic and nuclear threats let local drug overdosing, homelessness and, for many, unreachable real-estate prices. They may also conclude that 2018’s perils vastly exceeded those before. For now, though, here are some folk from this column who helped give 2017 its […]

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